its a strategy as well as challenge,
every team you face is different, there are the power houses and the weaker ones.
i view as a reward, if you did manage your team better or better yet you have develop your team isnt a good reward to see they can manage themselves even to take it easy against weaker teams.
it happens anywhere in basketball world, imagine nba teams that has worst records or on a losing season due to whatever reasons they have eaten alive by stronger teams and most of this stronger teams put in a different starting lineup or even yet just played their stars for a few minutes. this is for me TIE :D and guess what often times or not they do crush the weaker teams